When designing a website, one of the most common challenges is to develop an effective color scheme. The 25 sites that are showcased here have, in my opinion, done a great job of incorporating color and creating an attractive appearance. Please feel free to mention which ones are your favorites in the comments.
Dadan
This site features a large background image of a tree and a cloudy sky. The green of the tree and the grass look great with the blue sky.
Veerle’s Blog
Would you expect anything less from one of the leading graphic design blogs? Veerle uses a dark background and a lot of color throughout the blog.
Destination Organic
The website of Destination Organice features several colorful images that are complemented by a bright red navigation menu.
Emotions
With a colorful green background and other images that include a variety of colors, Emotions really stands out.
Ustvarjalko
A blue and green background that is bright, but not too hard on the eyes.
Glasdach
This site uses a a blue background (sky) and the green leaves of a tree on the left side of the screen.
Life Lab
A very bright site that uses blue, green, pink, purple, and orange (not the fastest loading site though).
Tennessee Winter
There are not a lot of different colors on this site, but the various shades of blue look great.
Tennessee Summer
If a Tennessee winter isn’t full of a lot of different colors, a Tennessee summer is.
Virgin Vie Consultants
This site features a light pastel color scheme that uses less images than many of the other sites included here.
Marius Roosendaal
This portfolio site has an attract color scheme that is very easy on the eyes.
Bram Nicholson & Associates
An excellent use of a background image to give color to a design.
African S Capes
This site uses a slide show effect with several different header images.
Carsonified
A nice color scheme involving green, blue, and black. The site sits on a wood floor background image.
Web Designer Wall
There’s a rainbow of colors in this blog for web designers.
Capture the Valley
This site uses a nice variety of colors without making it hard to read.
Joomla Junkie
Joomla Junkie shows that it’s possible to use a white background and still feature great use of color.
Inspiredology
This blog uses a very colorful header image and a lot of colorful photos throughout the posts.
Global Zoo
A variety of different colors and shades that come together to create a great color scheme.
Visit Cascadia
This site has been featured in a number of CSS galleries. It makes use of a wide range of colors and it relies heavily on images.
Pixel House
This Australian design company uses a few different shades of blue and green rather than using a larger variety of different colors.
Celebrific
Celebrific features very bright colors as well as some lighter pastels.
Alaska Sun Tanning Salon
This site uses a large background image, as well as blue, green, red, and orange in a pleasantly colorful appearance.
Memorial Baptist Church
This church website uses a nice light color scheme of blues and greens.
El Tesoro
This site uses a lot of graphics and photos to achieve its colorful look.
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